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Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas / Dmitri Alexeev, piano [2 CDs]

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-10-30

Works: Alexander Scriabin: Sonata for Piano no 1 in F minor, Op. 6; Sonata for Piano no 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 "Sonata fantasy"; Sonata for Piano no 3 in F sharp minor ("Etats d'âme"), Op. 23; Son...
Performers: Alexeev, Dmitri

The fascinating character of Scriabin may best be appreciated not through his lush orchestral works, but his innovative piano music. The ten Sonatas for Piano...continue...
Recording information: The Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex (2008-2011)....continue...

Emil Gilels Plays Russian Music

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata for Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 14; Sonata for Piano no 3 in A minor, Op. 28; Sonata for Piano no 8 in B flat major, Op. 84; Visions fugitives, Op. 22; Toccata for piano in D ...
Performers: Gilels, Emil

Spanning over three decades of recording and featuring some of Gilels' favorite works to perform, this comprehensive set offers a fascinating glimpse into a musician...continue...

Russian Archives: Scriabin, Borodin, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff / Vladimir Sofronitsky, piano

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Alexander Scriabin: Preludes (24) for Piano, Op. 11; Sonata for Piano no 3 in F sharp minor ("Etats d'âme"), Op. 23; Sonata for Piano no 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 "Sonata fantasy"; Poème f...
Performers: Sofronitsky, Vladimir

'He played like a god - he looked like a god' - Heinrich Neuhaus Vladimir Sofronitsky was born in St Petersburg in 1901, the youngest...continue...

Russian Archives: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff / Evgeny Kissin, piano

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-10-25

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano no 1 in C minor, Op. 35; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. ...
Performers: Kissin, Evgeni; Soustrot, Bernard
Conductors: Gergiev, Valery; Spivakov, Vladimir; Chistiakov, Andrey

Few classical artists have made so spectacular an initial impact upon public - even global - consciousness as the pianist Evgeny Kissin, when in 1984...continue...
Recording information: 1985-1989....continue...

Legendary Russian Pianists

25 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-09-27

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Mazurka for piano no 33 in B major, Op. 56/1, CT. 83; Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor, B 53/Op. 11; Etude for piano no 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 10/4, CT. 17; Etude for pi...
Performers: Akopian-Tamarina, Nelly [Piano]; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Bashkirov, Dmitri; Berman, Lazar; Davidovich, Bella; Demidenko, Nikolai; Flier, Yakov; Gavrilov, Andrei; Gilels, Emil; Ginzburg, Grigori; Grinber...
Conductors: Gauk, Alexander; Oistrakh, David; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Tretiakov, Viktor; Temirkanov, Yuri

Russia is home to some of the antiquities most iconic piano players: Konstantin Igumnov, Grigory Ginzburg, Lev Oborin, Vladimir Sofronitzky, Sviatoslav Richter, and Evgeny Kissin...continue...